Qamani’tuac

Abstract

The author is retired. In the 1970s, he was a navigating officer on Canadian Coast Guard ships. He revisited student life for his own interests and has seven postsecondary diplomas. He is presently registered in the Masters of World Literatures and Cultures. This article is adapted from a paper submitted for LCM5302 Travel and [literary] Theory, in October 2017. In Inuit culture and history, the town of Baker Lake should not exist. It was a seasonal camp where Inuit from different groups would gather, in summer, for hunting and fishing, with the goal of replenishing the supplies of their individual communities. The interference from European colonizers and the Canadian government has contributed to the artificial creation of Baker Lake. Was it an attempt to build Utopia? The author mixes his own travel memories (1973) with his literature research, in order to describe this mystery.